Sheila R. Vitale Pastor, Teacher, Founder PO Box 562 Port Jefferson Station, NY 11776 USA TRANSCRIPT OF MESSAGE #585 - Part 3 ABRAHAM & LOT This Message Has Been Transcribed and Edited For Clarity, Continuity Of Thought, And Punctuation By The CCK Transcribing and Editing Team. Praise the Lord, brethren since we started this series of messages and I repeat once again for anyone who has not been with us from the beginning, we are engaged in preaching a series of messages, the first one was "A Wondrous Edifice", the second message was "The Secret Of Sodom And Gomorrah", the third message was "Melchizedek, The Righteous Woman", and "Abraham & Lot" is the fourth in a series of messages which all are a part of one thread, or one theme. When I first started teaching on Sodom, I saw that the meaning of the word Sodom was to be burnt or to be scorched and once again I remind you that this is an unfolding revelation coming forth in this ministry, it does not, when I make a change it does not mean that the previous was wrong, it means that the Lord keeps showing it to me in a deeper and a deeper way. When I first studied the name Sodom, I realized that the Sodomites were not homosexuals, I preached that from the very beginning, the whole world, the Christian world and the non- Christian world seem to believe that the Sodomites were homosexual, as a matter of fact, Sodomy is an English word signifying homosexuality. I told you at the beginning of that message "The Secret of Sodom and Gomorrah", that this conclusion that the Sodomites were homosexual appears to have been drawn solely on the basis of Scriptures I think in Genesis, I think it is Genesis 19, it is the account of the angels coming into Sodom to save Lot, and the men of the city banging on the door saying, Let us know those men, that it is those few Scriptures that from which people have drawn the conclusion that the men of Sodom were homosexuals, but I declare to you and I declare it
to you in the message called "The Secret Of Sodom And Gomorrah", otherwise I declare to you that Lot when he chose to go to Sodom became the spiritual head of that city as evidence by the Scripture which says that Lot was sitting in the gate, that is a Scriptural way of saying, he was judging the sins of the people, he was an elder in Sodom, and Lot brought what we would call today the imputed anointing to Sodom, that why, if you need a more term that will make it, that term imputed more understandable to you, it is the anointing that is in the Pentecostal church, it is an imputed anointing, it is an anointing that is given without repentance. Lot brought the imputed anointing and knowledge of Jehovah to Sodom, okay, therefore the Sodomites were under that judgment, and that was how I preached it, in the message called "The Secret of Sodom and Gomorrah", that the men of Sodom were under that judgment and therefore they were burnt and scorched meaning that they were under the protective judgment of the Lord. However, now at this point, the Lord has given me a deeper, a yet deeper revelation, and that deeper revelation is, that Sodom is Gehennum. Let me explain this to you before you shut off the message, or stop reading the message. First of all, let me tell you this, I do not have any firm concept of what happens after we die. I have some loosely integrated ideas over the years, those ideas have changed, I know what the Kabbalah says, I know some of what the Kabbalah says, I know what the church says, I am not fully convinced of any of these ideas, what I am convinced of is that heaven and hell are experiences in the flesh, now that does not mean that there is not another experience or other experiences of heaven and hell on other planes after we die, I do not know, but I do know that human beings do experience heaven and hell in the flesh, when we suffer in this world, and who does not or has not suffered in this world, we experience hell, we suffer physically, mentally or spiritually or all of them. All of these experiences are manifestations of hell, torment, hell has torment. Who can deny that people are tormented in this world? People are tormented in this world. We also experience heaven in this world, we have the opportunity to experience God. David said in the 23 rd Psalm that the Lord put the table before him in the presence of his enemies. We can experience the goodness of the spirit of the glorified Jesus Christ, and the grace and the mercy of His help, and His fellowship in our life, that is heaven. Also brethren, the joy of a new born child, that is heaven, any manifestation of joy is heaven, well I am not going to get into the joy of physical sex at this point, that I cannot say is heaven because that is a part of the fallen world, but any emotional, intellectual or spiritual joy that we experience is a manifestation of heaven, okay.
There are different aspects of hell, there, I believe there are three Greek words translated hell in the New Testament, and I am sorry I did not do this research, but at least three Hebrew words translated hell, the most common Hebrew word translated hell is Sheol, meaning the pit. We talked a lot about the black hole that Adam fell into when he died, that is the pit, this is it. This whole world is in a pit, and each of us which is, we are really a spirit man, is existing in the pit of this physical body. One of the aspects of hell is a place, and it could be a state of mind, it could be an emotional state, it could be a physical state, the Old Testament calls it Gehennum. Gehennum is the aspect of hell where people or the person experiencing. Gehennum has a life that is largely tormented, everybody has trouble, but the people that have more than fifty percent trouble in their life, people that suffer all of the time, but yet, and now at this point have a revelation that they must have done something to bring this upon themselves, and are crying out to God. You know, when I was ten years old, and I was so ill and so suffering as a child and so violated by the doctors that had supposedly tried to help me, I remember crying out to God saying, I do not know what I did God, but please help me. I think I was a little older than ten, I was between twelve and well I never stop, but mostly between twelve and sixteen years of age, I use to cry out to God, and say, God I do not know what I did that all of this should be happening to me, just please help me. That is an example of someone in Gehennum, they know that something is terribly wrong in their life, that they are being hurt, and they are unhappy most of the time, okay, with legitimate problems, I am not talking about someone that is in self-pity, and they are crying out to God saying, Please help me, I do not know what I did, but I am sorry. I use to say that all of the time to the Lord, I do not know what I did, but I am sorry, please help me, this is a manifestation of Gehennum, people that are suffering, that also acknowledge that there is a God in heaven and are admitting that they have done something wrong to bring this upon themselves, and believing that there is a God who they have hope that there is a God who will help them. This is the mental state of Gehennum, the spiritual state of Gehennum is of suffering and of hope, and belief in a God and hope that God will help you, the mental state of Gehennum is mental torment but believing that there is a God that will help you, okay, spiritually you are hoping, mentally you are believing, and physical Gehennum is your just in torment. I had all three. I guess it is possible to be in Gehennum without being in physical Gehennum, you do not have to, I was physically ill, I had physical problems, you can be mentally ill and have spiritual and mental torment, but I had all three, spiritual, mental, emotional, and even intellectual torment.
I will not get into that now, but I had torment on every level, this is the definition of Gehennum in the flesh, I am not preaching about after death because I just do not know, I just do not know, I just do not have any firm opinion on it, but there is not a doubt in my mind, that there are people in Gehennum in this world, there are also people in Sheol in this world, drug addicts, and alcoholics, men and women that you see sleeping on the streets, they are in Gehennum every day, they are in physical Gehennum, see. I was never in Gehennum on that level that I was living in the streets, I always had a home to live in and food to eat. What we are going to do today, let me clarify all that I have said to you, I am changing my definition of Sodom from a people who are under the imputed anointing, now the Sodomites were under the imputed anointing because of Lot, but the very name Sodom, does not mean in and of itself, men under the imputed anointing, it means men in Gehennum, Sodom burning, men in torment, who are recognizing that there is a God, that they did something wrong, that they are repenting in general, and crying out for help. The Lord just reminded me that I did not finish my thought, this belief that the Sodomites were homosexual, comes from Genesis 19, where it says the men of Sodom were banging on Lot's door saying, Let us in, we want to know these men, but I declare to you that these men were in Gehennum, they were in torment and in hell, that Lot had come to them with the imputed anointing, and given them the experience of the imputed anointing which is the gifts of the spirit, but let me tell you something brethren, for people that are in Gehennum, the gifts of the spirit are not enough, I have been delivered from Gehennum, largely delivered from Gehennum, and let me tell you the imputed anointing is not enough for someone like that. These people saw the angels come into town, they had enough of God from the imputed anointing to recognize that these men had a higher anointing. I am not sure who these men were yet, I suspect that it was Abraham that went to Lot, but we will not know until I work up the Interlinear translation of those verses, which Lord willing I hope to do after I finish this message, these men of Sodom, they were under the imputed anointing, but they were still in Gehennum, I was in a powerful Pentecostal deliverance church and I was still in Gehennum, I suffered every day of my life on multiple levels. These men of Sodom, they saw the two angels or the two men with the imparted anointing, they recognized, they discerned that these men had a higher anointing that could have helped them where the imputed anointing did not help them, and they knew, do not ask me how they knew, they had to be hearing from God, they knew that in order to get help, that they had to have a union of
mind with these two men, or a union of spirit with these two men, and they were banging on Lot's door saying, Let us know these men that have an anointing that is higher than yours, because we want the help that is available to us from God through those men. Lot looked out them and said, Oh you do not want these men, I have two daughters that have never known a man, Cain and Abel, I have, stay with the imputed anointing which arising out of Cain and Abel with me, know me, have spiritual union, have spiritual intercourse with me, with the imputed anointing that I have with my two virgin daughters that have refused by the way to have a marital union with Abraham which was offered to him in the account of Melchizedek which we studied about that in the message "Melchizedek, The Righteous Woman". Lot was saying, I never had a relationship with the spiritual male, I refused Abraham, you do not really want these men, stay with me, that is all that you need, the imputed anointing, and then men were no longer listening to Lot, saying, Let us in, we want to know these two men with the imparted anointing, we want to be delivered from Gehennum. The King James says, that the two men, Lot closed the door, but I do not know what the Interlinear Text says, we will get to that in the next message in this series. For today however, all that I have said is just an introduction to prepare you to hear what I have to say which I hope will convince you that Sodom is Gehennum, Sodom is the physical manifestation, or Sodom was, the nation does not exist anymore, the physical nation of Sodom was a physical manifestation of the spiritual manifestation of hell called Gehennum. We have some passages from the Zohar to read from which I hope to convince you of this. Glory to God, reading from the Zohar, Now the destruction of Sodom was limited to one locality, and did not involve the whole world, hence it was decreed in open court, as indicated by the term V Tetragrammaton, well let me stop here. This Zohar is a commentary on what the Jews do not use the King James translation but it is very similar, almost the same, the Zohar is the spiritual commentary on the letter of the law, and one of the Kabbalistic principles that I have mentioned over time but you probably do not remember is that when we read in the King James, "and the Lord", it means that the Lord did not act alone, He acted with His court, and we the people that manifest His nature, are His court. That means when there are people that have the mind of Christ that the Lord is thinking through, that He has made His judgment through men, that is what it means. We are reading in the Zohar, it says, "And hence it was decreed an open court", it was not a judgment just of Jehovah alone, "whereas the flood overwhelmed the whole world and therefore had to be decreed by the deity alone". What it is
saying is, the deity alone, I do not know why they say deity instead of Jehovah, maybe it was not Jehovah, maybe it was a different name of God, but all I know, I am going to say Jehovah for now, they are saying that the flood overwhelmed the whole world, therefore this decision that there would be a flood that would overwhelm the whole world, had to come from the deity alone. It came from Jehovah, it did not come from the sons of God manifesting His nature, do you understand that, there is a difference you see, and basically the difference is, Christ in me and Christ in you, if Christ in man is mature enough, we do make judgments, and we do make righteous judgments by the Christ within us, but there is a higher judge than the Christ within me, and that is the glorified Jesus Christ, whereas the Zohar says, the deity alone, this was a judgment that was made not from the Christ in a man, but it came straight out of heaven, that the world would be destroyed, praise the Lord. We now know that Noah's flood was a judgment of God alone, it was not the judgment of Christ in a man, okay let us get back to the beginning of the sentence because I am losing my place here. "Now the destruction of Sodom was limited to one locality and did not involve the whole world, hence it was decreed an open court", that is in the hearts of the men who manifest Christ. Let me try again, this is what it is saying, the destruction of Sodom was decreed an open court, the destruction of Sodom or the judgment to destroy Sodom was made by Christ in the hearts of men, okay now I am not going to go into which men right now because I am not prepared to do that, I am just telling you what the Zohar is saying, that the judgment to destroy Sodom was made probably by the two men that went to visit Lot, but I am not going to get into that anymore, but the flood, Noah's flood, because it affected the whole world, was made by the deity alone, so this is one way that we can attempt to discern what level of judgment is falling from, if it is a judgment that falls in a localized area, the chances are that most likely that judgment came out of the Christ in an individual, but a judgment that falls on a whole world, or a whole nation, well I do not know about a whole nation, according to the Zohar, the judgment that fell on the whole world came from the deity alone. Praise the Lord. "The flood therefore had to be decreed by the deity alone in concealment as it were, hence the term Elohim." We are told here that it was not Jehovah that made decision to bring the flood on mankind, it was Elohim. In other words, that was a judgment of, actually Elohim is the name associated with Binah, well Elohim, okay I am not going to get into that now, because I could be wrong, I would have to research that, and it is not our message tonight anyway. "As for Noah and his companions, they were only saved through being carefully
concealed from sight, in this light we explain the verse, the Lord sat at the flood, and that is Psalms 29:10, that is the Lord, He sat at as it were all by Himself on the analogy of the expression He shall sit alone, Leviticus 13:46. Now it is because Noah was completely hidden from sight, that after the world had suffered its doom, and the wrath of the deity had been appeased", that is Gevurah now, "we read, and God, Elohim, remembered Noah. For Noah having been so long out of sight, had to be specially brought to mind." That is so interesting because not too long ago, I had a dream, I think it may have been a year ago, I had a dream that the baby had been left in the crib and suddenly somebody remembered that they had a baby in the crib and they went running into the house, the child was okay, but it was very long for its age, long, in other words tall, and it was in a crib, so you do not say a baby's tall because the baby was not standing yet, the baby was unusually long but very thin, and I did not know who it was that went running back looking for the baby, to get out of the crib and put it on the dressing table, then went into the closet looking for something to dress that baby with, the interpretation of the dream as I brought it before the body of Christ, was that the Lord had remembered this ministry, because we have been crying out for a long time for larger quarters and for more people to help us to process the work here, and it appeared at that time that the Lord was moving to provide larger quarters for us, because it was right after that, that there was some movement in the direction of providing a building for us. Here I see that, when I had the dream, I did not think it was a particularly Scriptural dream although I think that I had the correct understanding, and here we read in the Zohar, that God frequently and we know that we are hidden from sight, we know that this ministry is hidden from sight, that the majority of people and of the church and of the world, they cannot recognize us for what we are, so now we read in the Zohar, "Now because Noah was completely hidden from sight, that the world had suffered its doom and the wrath of the deity had been appeased." And we read, "And God, Elohim remembered Noah." I have known for a long time that we are hidden from the world and from the church until we get stronger because there is such a wrath that comes against the word of God on the level that it is coming forth from this ministry that it is possible that if enough people rise up in rage, we could be killed, so we are hidden until the people that are ministering this word are strong enough to overcome the wrath of the people, and our Scriptural example is the wrath of the sons of Israel that came against Elijah after his victory on Mount Carmel, they knocked Elijah right down, right down out of his anointing.
We know this ministry is very hidden, people just do not understand who we are. "From this passage we derive the mystical doctrine that the holy one, blessed be He", and that is Christ Jesus or Zeir Anpin, the holy one blessed be He is sometimes discoverable and sometimes undiscoverable, sometimes He is concealed and sometimes He is not concealed, He is discoverable when He is presiding over the lower court." We were talking this morning when we had breakfast together, I had breakfast with the brethren here, how, well I was telling everybody how exciting it is for me to be able to see the highly, the language that is used to describe certain principles, it, usually it is so fantastical that it is very exciting for me to be able to see it in everyday life, the Lord has been giving me that ability more and more, I personally find it very exciting. What I just read here is, that the holy one is sometimes discoverable and sometimes undiscoverable, He is discoverable when presiding over the lower court. What is the lower court? We are the lower court, this is just another way, this is a highly symbolic way of saying that Christ in His people holds court. If you are a group of people in which Christ is mature and manifesting in His office, when two or three of us get together and Christ is manifesting, we are holding court, decisions that face the church or decisions that face individual people, are addressed. From our point of view, what happens here is that we discuss issues, but Christ in us goes forth and moves by His Spirit to resolve issues and to correct errors. When the sons of God meet, and have a discussion that is coming forth from Christ, the Scripture or the Zohar calls that holding court in the lower court, we are lower court. The higher court is in the invisible world. It is a very serious responsibility. Praise the Lord. We are saying that the holy one which is Christ Jesus to us, is discoverable when presiding over the lower court, He remains undiscoverable in the spot from which all blessings flow, that is Christ in you the hope of glory, "hence those possessions of a man which are hidden from sight are receptive of the heavenly blessing." Christ in us is equipped to receive the heavenly blessing, if Christ is not functioning in you, and the blessing comes down on you, it has no place to rest or to connect to your life. "Hence those possessions of a man which are hidden from sight are receptive of the heavenly blessing. Whereas things which are exposed to view attract the notice of the accuser and subject to the influence of him who is named the evil eye." That is just another way of saying what I just said, this ministry is very hidden because if the whole world or if the whole church forget about the world, if the whole church would recognize the level of the anointing that is manifesting here, and that level is a level called judgment, at the very best, the unconscious part of the minds of the members of the church would rise up to smite us, and the Lord is not going to
let that happen until we are strong enough to not be destroyed by that attack. This is a hard word, but the unconscious part of the carnal mind, no matter how well meaning the person is, that unconscious part of the carnal mind will rise up and attack Christ when He is appearing, and that is why we are hidden, until we are strong enough to survive the attacks. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I am going to read that sentence again, "Hence those possessions of a man with", now these are not only physical possessions, they were also spiritual possessions, "Hence those possessions of a man which are hidden from sight, are receptive of the heavenly blessing", that is Christ in us is receiving the heavenly blessing, "whereas things which are exposed to view, are attract the notice of the accuser and subject to the influence of him who is named evil eye." You know, there are people in this world, there are spiritual people in this world who are spiritual apart from Christ, and as soon as they see somebody with spiritual power, they are seeking to challenge them, it is just like the old west, the old wild west, with the gun fights, there are people, they are called witches, they have high spiritual power, they see that you have spiritual power, it does not even have anything to do with your being in Christ, they will challenge another witch, that is just the way it is, powerful people. You can find people like that in the business world, you can find people like that in Government, in the corporate structure, as soon as they see someone with power, they are ready to defeat them. This world is a spiritual jungle, we think that this country is civilized, but this world is a spiritual jungle. Praise the Lord. The Lord keeps us hidden, "There is a deep mystery which connects all of this with the supernal pattern, Rabbi Jose, with tears in his eyes said, happy is the generation in which Rabbi Simeon flourishes, for it is through his merit that we have privilege to hear so sublime a discourse as this. Rabbi Jose said further, God must have sent that man on this road to impart to us these ideas when they came to Rabbi Simeon and repeated to him all they had heard, he said, of a truth he spoke well." I do not know why I put that paragraph in there, this is supposed to be a study on Sodom is Gehennum, it was an interesting study, but I do not know why I put it in there. I am sorry about that, let us go on to paragraph two. "The words in this generation are a tribute to Noah as much as to say, surrounded as he was by that wicked generation, he yet remained as righteous and perfect a man as if he had lived in the generation of Moses, but he could not save the world for the reason that, there were not to be found ten righteous men in it", and then in parenthesis, "similarly we read of Sodom per adventure ten shall be found there". The Zohar is saying, that Noah could not save the
world, because there were not found ten righteous men there. I have been preaching for quite a while here now, the Lord is going to save this country, because Christ Jesus is here, the ten righteous men symbolize the ten Sefirot of Christ Jesus. Remember Christ Jesus is Zeir Anpin, and Zeir Anpin does not have ten Sefirot initially, he only has six. We are talking about, we are not talking about the Christ, the average Christ that is in someone like you or me right now, we are talking about the Christ that is in full stature. When Christ in full stature is present, the God in heaven will come down and save that nation. Our hope today is that the Christ who is very much present in this nation, will stand up in full stature because that will be the deliverance of this nation and of the world. Praise the Lord. "Only Noah and his three sons with their women folk were saved because the ten righteous men could not be found. Rabbi Eleazar asked Rabbi Simeon his father, we have been taught that when the world becomes full of sin and is doomed to destruction, woe is then to the righteous man who is found in it, for he is first made answerable for its sins." That is a hard word, you know a couple of years ago, if I had read that, I would have rejected it. Let me read it to you again. "Woe is then to the righteous man who is found in this sinful world that is doomed to destruction, for he is first made answerable for its sins." Brethren, that is a hard word, if you are a righteous man, that means if you have Christ, or any manifestation of God at all, you are responsible for at least crying out for your family, for your locality, for your nation, for the world, you are responsible to see evil and ask the Lord what He is willing to do about it, and what your part is, and for a lifestyle that lives like that, you are attacked continuously by Satan, and I have been going through this for years. That is what the Zohar means when it says, the righteous man that is found in a sinful city answerable for its sins, Satan attacks you continuously because to be a righteous man, the definition of a righteous man is, that you are crying out against the evil day and night. "How then, was Noah able to escape the general doom? His father replied, It has already been said that the holy one, blessed be He, desired to people the world a new through him when he should issue from the ark, and further the general doom could not reach him because he was securely stored away in the ark and concealed from sight." Brethren, we have been teaching here for a long time that Christ Jesus is the ark, the only way we are going to survive the evil of this world is to be securely and ensconced in Christ Jesus. The Zohar said, it is the fulfillment of the verse, seek righteousness and humility, it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the
Lord's anger, because Noah sought righteousness, he was permitted to enter the ark and thus was hid in the day of the Lord's anger, and was placed beyond the reach of the adversary. That is when we are cleaving to Christ Jesus. I do not know why we have all of these paragraphs here, my notes say Sodom is Gehennum, okay here is my explanation in paragraph three, both the punishment of the flood and the punishment of Sodom were of the kinds meted out in Gehennum, where sinners are punished by water and fire. I find this so interesting, we are told in Gehennum, the sinners are punished by water and fire. Today I know that water and fire are two different types of energy. If this was a couple of years ago that would have really confused me, I could see fire as judgment, but I would have had trouble seeing water as judgment, but we know that water is a type of the Holy Spirit which is a source of energy. Jesus said, If by the finger of God I cast out demons, okay, then the Spirit of God has come upon you, so the Holy Spirit even typified by water is an energy source, okay. We are told that the sinners who are in Gehennum, now remember these are human beings, that are having painful experiences, and are in a category called present in Gehennum. The sinners who are in Gehennum are punished by water and fire. Rabbi Isaac said, That Sodom suffered the punishment of Gehennum is shown by the words of the Scripture and the Lord caused to rain upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah, brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven." He used the word rain. The former proceeding from the side of water, and the latter from the side of fire. Let us read that again. "And the Lord caused to rain upon Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire", so the brimstone we are told is coming from side of water, and the fire is coming from the side of fire, "both being punishments of Gehennum inflicted upon the sinners there." We know those most likely if you are listening to this message or reading this transcript, you have experienced the outpouring of the Holy Spirit at one time or another, I have also been preaching for a long time, that there is an unholy spirit, there is a counterfeit holy spirit in the world, and that is a spirit that would be doing the exact opposite of the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit blesses you, heals you, delivers you, well then the opposite of that, the unholy spirit would be cursing you, making you sick, and putting you into bondage. The people in Gehennum are afflicted by the spiritual water, okay, and let us see if I have written down any witnesses to what the spiritual fire might be, because we know there is a good fire and there is bad fire, Jesus said, He is going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. There is a baptism into the
fire of God, which that fire of God that we are baptized into, is the fire of Christ, it is the lake of fire that controls our sin nature. When we are baptized with fire, our sin nature is being judged continuously every second of every minute of every hour of everyday, and therefore we have power to not sin, but the baptism into a negative fire I do not want to guess, let us see what else this says here. We see that they are afflicted, so I would imagine that the baptism of the negative fire or the fire of the other side, would be to raise up judgments and torments and evil and it raises up the power of the evil side to restrain Christ, okay the Lord just gave me that. If we are baptized by the Holy Ghost and fire, we are baptized with water and fire, okay, and the baptism with the Holy Ghost as I told you earlier, heals, delivers, and points us to Christ. The baptism with the unholy ghost would be to make you sick, to afflict you with demons, and to point you to Satan. Then we are baptized with fire, with the Holy Ghost and fire, the baptism of fire is the impartation of Christ to you which burns our sin nature and purifies our sin nature. The fire of the other side would be to burn or to sacrifice Christ, and I have been talking about that for years, telling you the every time your mind agrees with Christ that Christ which is the lake of fire makes your carnal mind a burnt offering to God, and every time you agree with your carnal mind, your carnal mind makes Christ in you a burnt offering to the Serpent, so that is the baptism with the fire on the other side. The people who are in Gehennum, they are sick, they are in demonic bondage and they are filled with torment instead of joy, because the Holy Ghost is peace and joy, righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. If we can say that righteousness is peace and joy in the Holy Ghost, we can say that the Holy Ghost is peace and joy and righteousness. If you have the negative holy ghost, if you do not have peace, you have torment, you do not have joy, you have sorrow, and you do not have righteousness, you have moral turpitude. You have the weakness that comes from the lack of the morality of God. This is the judgment of the people in Gehennum, so now you have a check list that you might be able to guess if somebody is in Gehennum, okay, did they have sorrow instead of joy, do they have torment instead of peace, are they weak in morals rather than having the strength of righteousness, these are the people in Gehennum. If they are weak in morals rather than the strength of righteousness, they have been engaging in activities which are bringing the sowing and reaping judgment upon them. We have a lot of people in Gehennum in this country today, and of recent years they have risen up in great power to try to make their lifestyles legal.
"Rabbi Judah then said to him, the punishment of sinners in Gehennum last twelve months." Brethren, that is not a literal twelve months, I was in Gehennum for twelve years, I am not sure that I am completely out of it, but I am largely out of it, those are twelve cosmic months, and I really do not have any idea what that means. The punishment of sinners in Gehennum last twelve months after which the holy one raises them out of Gehennum where they have undergone purification. This is interesting because we see that according to the Zohar, Gehennum can be likened to purgatory. The Christian church preaches against purgatory and tells you that there is no such thing as purgatory, well there may not be the Catholic concept of purgatory, where it is possible to buy your way out, I do not believe that you could buy your way out of purgatory, but there is a place, a level, a grade of hell, where that hell is only for a season until you learn your lesson, and the Scripture for that is the experience of Nebuchadnezzar. The Lord said to him, You will live as an animal and his hair grew long and his nails grew out to whatever, however that manifested in the natural, and you will be in that condition, you will live like an animal until you recognize that God rules in the affairs of men as well as the affairs in heaven. That is a level of purgatory, it is Scriptural, although I do not believe that it exists the way the Catholic Church teaches it. Neither do I agree with the Christian church that says that there is no purgatory, there clearly is a purgatory, and purgatory is a spiritual experience of a reprobate life or an unhappy life, and a lot of people in this Gehennum, they do not even know. I know when I was in Gehennum, well I told you earlier on this message that I had been tormented with sickness as a child, but then as I got older I outgrew a lot of it, but I was in a very low lifestyle, my mind was very low, I did not know anything was wrong. A lot of the sinners in Gehennum, they do not really know that they are doing, well I just contradicted myself, let me straighten this out, I am preaching this by the seat of my pants, so you just have to bear with me, the definition of Gehennum that I gave you at the beginning of this message, was people that were in torment but were crying out to... Yes, the last sentence that I said where the sinners in Gehennum do not know what they are doing, that was a mistake okay, I see even from these notes, the punishment of sinners last twelve cosmic months after which the holy one raises them out of Gehennum, where they have undergone purification. I have been raised out of Gehennum, and I am now moving largely in the mind of Christ, so I was purified by the judgments and the pain of my lifestyle which caused me to cry out to God. We see Gehennum is the place of the tormented people whose judgments have driven them to cry out to God. There are plenty of people in
this world that are suffering terribly but do not cry out to God, they are so stubborn, they will not cry out to God. I reiterate my first position, Gehennum is the grade or the level of hell where the tormenting life of people has driven them to be crying out to God, and at some point God hears that person's prayers and begins to purify them. I have been purified while in Gehennum by the Spirit of Jesus Christ, by the mind of Jesus Christ, and by the glory of His nature, and the mercy of His reaching down to me to cleanse me. I am one of the sinners that has been purified, that has undergone purification and I am really not in Gehennum anymore, although there may be some strains of it hanging on, I am really not in Gehennum anymore. "These people remain then, sitting at the gate of Gehennum, and when they see sinners enter there to be punished, they beseech mercy for them." Brethren, that is the same thing as Jesus saying, The one whose sins you remit are remitted and whoever's sins you do not remit are not remitted. I have been preaching here for the longest time I am convinced that the Lord has told me how important it is that we forgive the sins of the people and in particular how we forgive the sins of the people that hurt us because when we the sons of God do not forgive the sins of people who hurt us, we are pronouncing a judgment of destruction on them. You need to know this, unforgiveness is a pronouncement of destruction on the other person. I have heard it preached in the church, and I am not saying this is wrong, I have heard it preached that forgiveness is for you because most likely the other person forgot all about it and you are the one that is suffering inside because you have not forgiven them, that is true, but there is another side to it, your unforgiveness is a curse upon that person, it is not preached in the church today but it is the truth, it is the truth that the other person does not know that you are all unforgiving, but you have placed a curse on them every day that you do not forgive them you are cursing them and at some point disaster will strike their life because of your unforgiveness. In the immediate present, forgiveness is for your own peace, but in the long run unforgiveness does do damage to the other person. Everything that you hear preached is not true. In particular, if you are a son of God, in particular if you have Christ in the midst of you, to not forgive somebody is to do them great harm, great harm, it is absolutely essential that we forgive the people who try to harm us, because the spirit that indwells us is the spirit of mercy, and that does not mean that you let people hurt you, it does not mean that you let people victimize you, no you have to stop them from doing harm, or even if the Lord
has sent you to be an agent to stop them from harming other people, but you do not have to hate them while you are stopping them, you do not have to have evil thoughts towards them while you are stopping them, you can pray for God's mercy in their life while you stop them from doing evil. We see it in the Zohar, and we hear this wisdom being told to us by our Lord and savior Jesus Christ. Remember I told you earlier at the beginning of this message that the phrase sitting in the gate, signifies judging righteous judgment, or judging people, that is what sitting in the gate means, and here it says right here, "those who graduate or are delivered from Gehennum", and I am one of them, "they remain then", what does that mean they remain then? They stay in Gehennum, only now they are sitting in the gate of Gehennum, it means that they are not leaving town, they are still around, and now they are sitting, they are not only, they are not in the depths of Gehennum anymore, they are now sitting in the gate of Gehennum where they are close enough to Gehennum to see sinners enter there to be punished, and they beseech mercy for them. Let me tell you something brethren, when you are delivered from a lifestyle of sin in Christ you will never get completely away from that lifestyle, you obligated to have some aspect of your life touching that lifestyle that you were delivered from, because since you were involved in that lifestyle, you have the ability to understand other people involved in that lifestyle, you have the ability to recognize other people involved in that lifestyle, and you are the ideal person to forgive their sins because you have escaped from that lifestyle. The Lord is not sending somebody that knows nothing about that lifestyle to help or even righteously judge the sinners of that lifestyle, because then you become a Pharisee and you think it is just human nature to be thinking, Well thank God I never did anything like that, and then you condemn them. Once you are delivered from any manifestation of Gehennum, you will never be completely removed from it, you will always have some connection with it, because you will be spiritually sitting in the gate of Gehennum, you will recognize sinners that have entered in there for punishment and you will cry out for them. Reading from the Zohar, "In time, the holy one takes pity on them, and causes them to be brought to a certain place reserved for them." I suggest to you it is a spiritual place, eventually your physical circumstances could change, but initially the change is spiritual, so after we cry out for mercy for them, after we recognize that they are in this condition and we recognize their sins because we use to do the same thing, and then we pray for them. "In time the holy one takes pity on them and causes them to be brought to a certain place reserved for them. From that day onward, the body rests in the dust, and the soul is
accorded her proper place." "from that day onward", well I am not sure what to make out of this, "the holy one takes pity on them and causes them to be brought to a certain place reserved for them. And from that day onward, the body rests in the dust", well, you know that does not have to mean physical death, it can mean that the body, now remember the mind is the body of the spirit, this could be saying that the carnal mind rests in the dust of the flesh, and the soul or your spiritual soul or your mind of Christ, or the personality that is in Christ, is now accorded her proper place. Brethren, I am living this thing, I am living this thing. When I was in Gehennum, it was Cain in me that was living, my whole life was out of Cain, and because the Lord took mercy on me, and began to convert me and purify me, Cain was driven down into the dust, Cain is the one that was driven down into the dust, Cain is the earth, and Abel in me, okay, that is the soul that is accorded its proper place is Abel, Abel is the one that rises up above Cain and accorded his proper place of righteousness and as a solid citizen of the community who is capable and willing of helping people at all times. Going on with the Zohar, "Observe that, as has been stated, even the generation of the flood were punished with nothing else but with fire and water. Cold water descended from above, while seething water bubbled up from below mingled with fire." That is very interesting, the judgment of the flood, cold water, I guess rain water is cold, descended from above, while seething water, I guess that is underground springs, or lava, hot water springs, or lava even, bubbled up from below mingled with fire, that can mean anything you know, it could be mean a physical manifestation, it could be a spiritual manifestation, it could mean that the Holy Spirit, well let me see, cold water came from above, that could be the Holy Spirit while the seething water poured out from on high. Let me read that again, cold water descended from above while seething water bubbled up from below, it is just different levels of energy brethren, coming from judgment from above or coming from judgment within one's own being. Judgment comes from one's own being, Satan the unconscious part of the carnal mind is the one who judges our own sins, so that could be the seething water, and the fire could be Satan and Leviathan coming up from below, okay, and the water coming up from above would be Binah, Binah pours out judgment and she pours out water. "Thus underwent the two punishments meted out from on high, and so was Sodom also punished namely by brimstone and fire", the judgment that comes from within the individual or from within other individuals, and the judgment that comes from the world above, and in our language, the language of the
Christians, the judgment that comes from Christ in the people, and the judgment that comes from the glorified Jesus Christ above, two levels of judgment poured out on the people in Gehennum. "And so Sodom was also punished, namely by brimstone and fire. Rabbi Isaac asked him, Will the generation of the flood arise on the day of judgment? Rabbi Judah said, That question has already been discussed elsewhere, as regards the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, we can say that they will not arise. This is proved from the words of the Scripture, "And the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt, and a burning that is not sown nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath." That is very interesting, we could say several things about that, let me just go over the question, "Will the generation of the flood arise on the day of judgment? Rabbi Judah said, That question has already been discussed elsewhere as regards to the people of Sodom and Gomorrah, we are not going to talk about Noah's generation today, but we can relate that question to Sodom and Gomorrah. Will the souls who were destroyed in Sodom and Gomorrah, will they rise again for the judgment? This Rabbi says, No, this is proved from the words of the Scripture, "And the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt, and a burning that is not sown, nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah." You know this sounds to me like Hebrews 1:6, where the land that sins after it has tasted the good word of God is left for nothing, nothing is left for it but to be burned, okay, that is what this sounds like to me. This of course is quoting Deuteronomy 29:22. Let me read it again, "And the whole land thereof is brimstone and salt, and a burning that is not sown, nor beareth nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah which the Lord overthrew in His anger and in His wrath." Where the words "which the Lord overthrew" refer to the world, and the words "in His anger" to the world to come, while the words "and in His wrath" refer to the time when the holy one will bring the dead to life. I do not have a specific response to what the Zohar says, but I do have a hope that everything that is in the Old Testament that sounds like hopeless destruction, has hope in Christ Jesus, that is my revelation okay, even that Scripture in Hebrews 1:6, where it says, "He who has tasted of good word of God and still sins willingly, there is nothing left for you but your land to be burned." What that means to me is judgment, the very judgment of Gehennum that we are reading about here, okay, but there is deliverance from Gehennum The Zohar is saying that there is no deliverance from Sodom and Gomorrah
which is Gehennum, but I believe that in Christ Jesus there is deliverance, and that is all I am going to say on this message. If the Lord gives me anything else, I will be glad to share it with you, but right now I think we have made our point that Sodom typifies Gehennum and that Lot went to be the preacher to sit in the gate and judge the sins of the people in Gehennum, okay. What we learned from this passage is that we are supposed to ask for mercy on them so that they can be delivered from Gehennum, okay, now all of these men in Sodom banging on the door saying, Let us know those men, these people were in Gehennum, while they were under the imputed anointing, they were still in Gehennum and that was my experience. I know a lot of people that were, I do not know today so much anymore, but I know a lot of people that were in the Pentecostal church, one man was still practicing homosexuality, I knew people that were still fornicating, I knew people that were in all kinds of sin, while under the imputed anointing, and they would not or they could not stop, these men of Sodom were in Gehennum, they were still sinning but they recognized what they were doing wrong, and they could not stop, they could not stop drinking, they could not stop drugging, they could not stop fornicating, they could not stop, and they were banging on that door saying, Lot, you know people that have a greater anointing than you do, let us at those men, you have not been able to help us. I want to tell you something brethren, the Pentecostal preachers today are holding back the power of God that is present in this anointing that is in this ministry, I am not saying this ministry alone, this level of anointing that the Lord wants to pour out on the church to purge them from their sins, and the Pentecostal preachers as a group, there may be one or two that this does not apply to, their holding back the people and they are telling them, you do not want that, that is not truth, that is occult, do not listen to it, all you need is the Pentecostal anointing that I am giving you, that is all you need, I have two virgin daughters, come and have sex with my virgin daughters, have spiritual sex with my spiritual being, which has never known the spiritual male, do you understand what I am saying? These preachers have never had spiritual intercourse of mind with the male aspect of Christ, so they are spiritually virgins and they are saying to the people under them, you do not need the male anointing of Christ, you do not need the imparted Christ, do not be wanting these men, you have spiritual sex with my virgins, that is all you need. I do not know why the King James says, the angels or the two men shut the door, I cannot wait to get into that Scripture to see what it really says, and I want to tell you that Lot was judged, Lot did not escape.